Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-14
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Buddhism.
A WOMAN was chosen Register of
Deeds OF Clay County, Kansas, at the
recent election.
A YOUNG society man of Keokuk,
Iowa, won wager made In jest by
eating thirty-six bananas at q sitting.
ssTHE PRESS says the Rockland
Courier, lis the archimedean lever
that moves the world at two dollars q
year"
DURING his three weeks stay in Paris
the Mabarajah of Baroda expended
nearly 100000 in buying furniture
and works of art.
CHARLES DICKENS has two things to
find fault with in this country: The
bad pavement in New York and the
stoves In railroad cars.
FIFTY NINE survivors of Balaclava
attended the annual dinner In London
q few days ago on the thirty.third an
niversary OF the charge.
The buyer of a large Cincinnati to-
bacco house, who is paid $4,000 a
year to know good tobacco when he
sees it, neither smokes nor chews.
A PATCHWORK quilt made by chill
dren in the q ,ited States and an In
dian shawl, the gift OF Queen Victoria,
were buried with Jennie Lind at her
request.
INDIANA is proud of her new state
capitol because it cost 100000
and looks good enough to be worth
$500, ,O00-according to home
estimate.
SOME of the ladies of Flndlay, O.,
are discussing the question of organ
izing g. Knights of Labor assembly.
Their object is to benefit the condition
Of local workirgwomen.
A NASHVILLE underta ker is authority
for the statement that, IN accordance
wit h the dying request of lady bur-
led In hat city recently, her new bon
net was inter ed with her.
REV. o. Fl. WALKER, Of New Lon
don, Conn, has remarkable record
as an industrious preacher. He has
been absent from his pulpit only two
Sundays in thirty FIVE years.
LORD JUSTICE BOWEN, OF England,
has transmitted Virgil into an English
verse, which is said to be an ingenious
modification of the hexameter, and
his work is about being published.
THE first translation into English
of a Hebrew novel will shortly appear.
France first discovered that there
were Hebrew novels worth translat-
ing and has had them for some years.
AN effort ia being made in London
to organize a district messenger COM
pany after the American plan. The
public ia asked to subscribe for ten
thousand shares of stock at IS each.
CALVIN WINNINGHAM, of Ashland,
Idaho, caught his foot while chopping
wood the other day, and fel back
ward, and in the fall his ak STRUCK him
in the neck, severing his jugular vein.
He bled to death.
A CALIFORNIA farmer at Pasadena
cut open O. pumpkin to feed his COW
the other day and found within a nice
little pumpkin vine growing. One of
the seeds had sprouted inside of the
mother pumpkin.
THE sheep owners near Wapgus, New
Mexico, are doing their best to exter-
inmate g. bear that has for weeks past
obtained q living by raidipg their
hocks. Over one hundred sheep have
been killed by the animal.
THE Moravians, who are one Of the
smallest religious demo limitations,
maintain 1913 missionaries in different
parts of the earth and 1,565 native
assistants, and now have $1,000
adherents in mission fields.
THE japanese women of Osaka
have formei ''Ladies' Christian AS
sOciation and at q recent meeting in
the Y M G. A. Hall, in that place, an
audience composed Of ladies only is
said to have numbered over 1000.
THE undergraduates of Cambridge,
England, intend giving q perform
ance in Greek of "Gdipus Tyran-
nus' to all their friends who speak
ancient Greek. An amateur band will
render music specially written for the
occasion.
A RECENT useful invention is that
of an improved kind of heel for boots
and shoes, fitted with an adjustable
wear plate, by which uneven wear of
the heel or sole is prevented and the
Durability OF the foot wear material
ly increased.
Two Toowooba girls won a prize
given last month in Queensland,
Australia for 'fthe best young lady
of the colony" It meant the one
who could best do all the household
duties of colonial woman. The
prize was divided.
ssI AM going to see man kill him.
SELF" said E. B. Odell, of Kansas City,
as be started out to see Baldwin de
scend from his balloon by means of a
parachute. A second after Baldwin
had cut loose from the balloon Odell
fell dead up the sidewalk.
In the second school district of the
county OF Hamilton, state OF Tennes-
see, is a Baptist preacher who is the
father of two daughters whose births
took place 81 years apart. Theyoung.
est was born du ing the week ending
Thanksgiving Day, and the eldest in
1880.
AN enthusiastic materialist put a
head stone over the grave OF his wife
Livso,